All change !

[healeyneil]

I sold my Sunbeam- to Germany, and bought a Jensen Healey 

i just wasn’t getting on with the Sunbeam, engine was great, but I didn’t really enjoy driving it, and my wife hated it !
we have previous with Jensen Healeys, a GT was my wife’s everyday car, until child no 2 came along, a mere 34 years ago.
Then I built my scary Sprite, which was the oily bits of a JH in a Sprite bodyshell.
My new car, had been restored some years ago, but the guy I bought it from wasn’t really up on looking after old cars I’d say.
on the test drive, one of the front brakes pretty well seized on. I managed to got the stuck piston moving a bit, so with it reassembled, I drove it home. 480 or so miles from Plymouth to glasgow. Only touched the brake pedal twice 😀
Some fettling to do, then just enjoy it.

[bbh]

".......from Plymouth to glasgow. " Not exactly next door then. If it did that on UK roads it must be in not too bad a shape.. Enjoy

[healeyneil]

First time I’ve ever bought a classic that isn’t a complete project. Still need to fettle it tho. How do people live with cars with so many loose bits etc 😡

[healeyneil]

Front brakes rebuilt, new headlights fitted ( that’s another story ) and some minor repairs being done.
Over winter, I’ll be fitting an overdrive gearbox, and trying to drop the drivers seat down as much as I can

[healeyneil]

the cost to rebuild the gearbox and overdrive was estimated at £1500 +vat 🤢. Investigating 5 speed conversions - gosh , they’ve got expensive!  Eventually found someone to rebuild the overdrive for £550, and I’m rebuilding the gearbox myself. Everything looks surprisingly good inside, which is just as well as some bits are unobtainable. Appropriate workshop manual purchased, some steel bar for making dummy shafts purchased. As long as there aren’t too many bits left over, it’ll be fine !

[healeyneil]

i bought another one !  As the Jamaican is approaching completion, I was thinking about another project to keep me occupied, and this turned up on a Facebook page. Very cheap, but also rather far away. I checked over my cheapy trailer that I’d got with the 66 Sprite and headed south. 460 miles south to be precise, to Dorset.
it’s missing some bits, like engine/gearbox and most of its interior trim. It will sit for a while and I can daydream about what motive power it can have

[Admin]

460 miles south to be precise, to Dorset

You could have dropped in!

It will sit for a while and I can daydream about what motive power it can have

I've got a 350 Chevy somewhere, no gearbox though

[healeyneil]

I would have loved to visit the lair, but time was against me!
Curren engine daydream is Jaguar AJV6

[Admin]

You could have seen my latest red racer